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Pimpernel Smith ('Pimpernel' Smith)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Inspired by Baroness Emmuska Orczy s The Scarlet PimperneI, Pimpernel Smith stays true to the source material whiIe allowing director and star Leslie Howard to present a thought-provoking and entertaining dramatic work.
Horatio Smith (LesIie Howard, Gone with the Wind), a Cambridge Professor of ArchaeoIogy, persuades several of his students to accompany him to pre-war Germany on a dig. Smith easiIy wins the support of the Nazis who believe the excavation wiII unearth the Aryan history of Germany. However, Smith s true objective is to free those held in nearby concentration camps.
The façade of a meek and miId-mannered professor by day wiII give way to the daring and heroic Pimpernel by night as Smith and his students, deducing who their teacher reaIIy is, set forth on their mission.
BeautifuIly photographed in bIack & white by Mutz Greenbaum (Night and the City) and featuring a musical score by John Greenwood (Elephant Boy), PimperneI Smith co-stars Francis L. SulIivan (Night and the City), Allan Jeayes (The Four Feathers), Peter Gawthorne (The Amazing Adventure), Arthur HambIing (Odd Man Out) and Mary Morris (The Thief of Bagdad). |
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